Talk about workplace ethics and eyes begin to glaze, yawns must be stifled and brows start to furrow. Why is this so? Conventional wisdom sees workplace ethics as an occasional dilemma to be tolerated, not a daily focus to be embraced. Conventional wisdom is wrong.
Just like an airplane that crashes when its structural integrity fails, a business will crash when its integrity fails. Unfailing adherence to business ethics, just like performing aircraft maintenance, can keep you aloft. In-house counsel are increasingly being called upon to counsel, guide and even be arbiters of workplace ethics. This responsibility is especially nettlesome because in-house counsel must address the needs of several constituencies – employees, owners, shareholders, executives, the public and the press. Here is a framework to help you balance these often competing needs, especially when the lines between right and wrong bleed together. It’s based on three “Home Bases Rules.”
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